The CPAC I saw (Michelle Malkin shares her thoughts on Ann Coulter)

Michelle Malkin ^ | Sunday March 4th, 2007 | Michelle Malkin

[ajolympian2004]

Enter Ann Coulter.

Her "faggot" joke was not just a distraction from all the good that was highlighted and represented at the conference. It was the equivalent of a rhetorical fragging--an intentionally-tossed verbal grenade that exploded in her own fellow ideological soldiers' tent.

There are countless conservatives who bring their children to CPAC. It's a family-friendly event. I brought mine last year and the year before. I met several parents with their kids there this year. We expect CPAC to be a place where conservative role models speak with clarity, passion, and integrity. There are enough spewers of mindless filth, vulgarity, and hatred on TV, at the movies, and in the public schools. We don't expect our children to be exposed to that garbage at the nation's preeminent conservative gathering.

I was in the back of the ballroom and did not see any children in the audience during Coulter's speech. But what if there had been?

Would you want your children hearing the word "faggot" spoken in such a casual and senseless manner? Would you like your first-grader or three-year-old running around the halls of CPAC singing "faggot, faggot, faggot?" Not me. Not anymore than I'd like my toddler singing "gook, gook, gook" or "sambo, sambo, sambo"--favored epithets hurled at conservative minorities by leftist haters groping around in their empty intellectual quivers. There were hundreds of young conservative college students in the ballroom. Would you be proud of your college-age daughter spewing such epithets in her campus debates with leftists?

With a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees. At a reception for college students held by the Young America's Foundation, I lambasted the substitution of stupid slurs for persuasion-- be it "faggot" from a conservative or "gook" from a liberal--and urged the young people there to conduct themselves at all times with dignity in their ideological battles on and off campus.

I made something else explicitly clear: Not all of us treat the communication of conservative ideals and ideas as 24/7 performance art. You can and should use humor to convey your message. You can enlighten and entertain--without becoming a tired old schtick. You can joke without becoming the joke.

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The rest of her coverage, great pics from the event and photo album link here -
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006981.htm

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

“Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets”

William Shakespeare's Macbeth

[sauropod]

*Sob!*

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

michelle nails it. The real question is: Who is nailing Michelle?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

michelle nails it.

The real question is: Who is nailing Michelle?

[misterrob]

I wouldn't go there. Ann Coulter is no virgin and while that is her choice I don't think going Christian in the discussion is all that fitting.

[Steel Wolf]

We have a presidential candidate who is just like Clinton with women, dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals.

We elected a guy for President who had a DUI. What's your point? I've seen the pictures, and Rudy wasn't in danger of knocking anyone dead with those legs of his. (Bada bing!)

You may find this to be a big deal, but it ain't 1952 anymore. Most Americans simply don't give a hoot, and will find your tetotaler objections quaint, at best. Blame the rise of South Park conservatism, but fewer on the right really care, either.

[BillyBoy]

As Reagan would say, there you go again.

ANYONE who disagrees with her holiness Ann Coulter on any issue is a "DU troll". Obviously. All hail the great Ann Coulter, hallowed be her name. Ye must post another picture to marvel her flawless beauty, lest ye be banned.

Thank you for proving my point that you Coulter worshippers. You guys are worse than the cult of Obama on the left.

[misterrob]

Obviously Sam has a different sign up date then what's posted then.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Catfight ...

My money is on Coulter... two to one odds... first round by a knockout...

[CometBaby]

Are you defending her when she is wrong?

If the shoe fits ..

[jospehm20]

You must be easily sickened. You also make my point. I said nothing about basic respect towards people. I just do not think that lifestyle choices deserve protected status. There are already enough protected groups in our society without adding more based on behavior. What do you think should come next? Pedophiles becoming a protected group? After all, doesn't everybody deserve basic human respect?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Ye must post another picture to marvel her flawless beauty, lest ye be banned.

Here is the Shield Maiden slaying the Witch King of Angmar...

[ajolympian2004]

Saturday, March 03, 2007
Ann Coulter And Michael Richards
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 11:09 AM

Ann Coulter is a political comedian who, like Michael Moore, often offends, and sometimes crosses the bounds of decency.

Yesterday she entered the territory where Michael Richards went when he employed the n-word to abuse a heckler. When Coulter employed the f-word to abuse a candidate, she made herself radioactive because the word is a simply invitation to hate. It was repulsive.

I cannot imagine Coulter being invited to any panel or television appearance on which I would want to appear. Colleges and universities must also stop inviting her to appear as a representative of the conservative movement in America. She is not. You want smart, accomplished and funny conservative women? Ask K-Lo, Laura Ingraham or Carol Liebau to appear, or chose from scores of others. But not Ann Coulter --she represents only a snarl and a deep need to be noticed.

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Like Michelle Malkin and other conservatives who have spoken out against Ann's behaviour Hugh Hewitt is right on the mark.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I really don't care what you think...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Yesterday she entered the territory where Michael Richards went when he employed the n-word to abuse a heckler. When Coulter employed the f-word to abuse a candidate...

Hey! Yo!

Being black is not the same as being a "faggot."

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Yesterday she entered the territory where Michael Richards went when he employed the n-word to abuse a heckler. When Coulter employed the f-word to abuse a candidate...

Hey! Yo!

Being black is not the same as being a "faggot."

[misterrob]

why not look at one of the important issues here. The CPAC event was supposed to be about the candidates and instead it turns into "all about Ann" which does nothing to help the party's chances of winning elections. Instead of where candidates stand on issues and how well they did on impressing a conservative audience the focus is on Ann. Bravo. And, if people want to see a republican in the WH and in Senate and Congressional seats how does her comment go with those voters that are non aligned? My guess it not well. Ask any candidate at that speech if her comments helped the cause and all of them will say no.

I thought it was great that Cheney told Leahy to f-off but he did it to his face and in an press event.

[bluecollarman]

If the shoe fits ..

Those shoes are defective. They will not fit anyone except a liberal.

[RunningWolf]

I know the points Ann was making and they were good ones. But is was to easy for people to zoom in on the f-word and the tempest over that caused her points to be forgotten.

I think if she had made her points a little slower rather than going straight for the skewering like she does it would have been better for her.

Ann can take it though.

[chasio649]

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